Patent Application
20080098876
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to a method and a system for automatically selecting music, particularly, to a method and a system using the same for home-based exercise training guided by automatically assessment and selecting music.
2. Description of the Prior Art
Before 1992, the general medical system thought that “exercise” might hurt a patient especially the patient who has the heart or lung related disease. Therefore, in the early days, exercise assessment is applied on athletes only. However, till 1992, “Shuttle Walking Test” was developed for assessing a patient as one of the “rehabilitation systems”. In general, the exercise strength is based on the oxygen consumption. And, according to the traditional information, it can be understood that the oxygen consumption is proportional to the speed of the exercise. Accordingly, in a hospital, a patient can be assessed by his/her exercise such as walking distance and time.
In short, Shuttle Walking Test is used for a patient to walk a designated distance (such as 10 meters) back and forth until the patient can't go anymore (for example, can't breath smoothly (dyspnea)) . Then, a max speed (a max exercise strength) of the walker (the patient) can be recorded under supervision of a medical person. According to some factors such as the max speed, physical data (height, weight, age, and sex), etc, a doctor may preset a proper exercise speed (such as the 80% of the max exercise strength) for the patient to walk (exercise) continuously for rehabilitation.
Continuously rehabilitation of the patient can provide some useful information for the doctor to diagnose. For example, the doctor may change the prescription or the dosage according to the exercise status of the patient. Furthermore, the patient may be recovered according to such rehabilitation system, and thus, the medical sources can be reduced. The traditional rehabilitation system requires the patient to exercise in the hospital, i.e. the patient relies on the supervision assistance of the medical persons. For example, the exercise strength of the patient needs to be supervised under the medical person. Hence, the rehabilitation for the patient is not only relied on the manpower of the hospital, but also relied on the motivation of the patient to come to the hospital.
For the chronic patient such as asthma, diabetes or hypertension, continuously monitoring his/her status can efficiently prevent sudden aggravation. The chronic patient cannot only rely on receiving medical suggestion in the clinical return visit periodically (such as every four to twelve weeks). The periodically outpatient clinical services or the long-period prescription can only provide passive defenses, instead of active controlling by doctors or medical system for any possible serious situation of the patient. In addition, periodically outpatient services can't distribute the medical sources efficiently. Moreover, when the patient sees the doctor for clinical return visit, he/she maybe not having any aggravation symptom. Thus, the doctor could not provide an efficient therapy.
Therefore, there is a need of rehabilitation system for the patient to assess his/her own disease. Because the patient can automatically assess his/her own disease and the medical system can synchronously get the assessment, the medical sources can be distributed efficiently. Furthermore, it can achieve the objection of recovering the patient.
One aspect of the present invention is to solve the above-mentioned problem. Therefore, the present invention provides a method and a system using the same for home-based exercise training guided by automatically assessment and selecting music. Furthermore, it can efficiently distribute the medical source.
The method of automatically selecting music according to the present invention is adopted to selectively provide proper tempo music to a patient without any supervision, wherein the proper tempo music is used for the patient to exercise according to the tempo of the proper tempo music. The method comprises: receiving at least one initial physical data of the patient; generating a basic tempo music according to the at least one initial physical data; providing a plurality of music with different tempo according to the basic tempo music; receiving at least one exercise data of the patient including an exercise time (or duration) of the patient exercising following the basic tempo; and automatically selecting one of the plurality of music according to the at least one exercise data for the patient to exercise following the selected tempo music.
Preferably, the method of this invention may further comprise storing the at least one exercise data.
In addition, the system of automatically selecting music according to the present invention is adopted to selectively provide proper tempo music to a patient without any supervision, wherein the proper tempo music is used for the patient to exercise according to the tempo of the proper tempo music. The system comprises an exercise status database, a control unit, and a playing apparatus. The exercise status database stores at least one exercise data of the patient. The control unit is connected with the exercise status database for automatically selecting a proper music instruction based on the exercise data. The playing apparatus stores with a plurality of music with different tempo. The playing apparatus receives the selected proper music instruction to selectively play one of the pluralities of music with a specific tempo for the patient to exercise following the specific tempo. Furthermore, the playing apparatus may generate and transmit the at least one exercise data to the control unit. For example, it may transmit the exercise data (including exercise time (or duration), dyspnea rating data, or the patient's heart rate) Therefore, after obtaining the exercise data, when the patient is going to exercise on the next day of the exercise data obtaining, the control unit transmits the proper music instruction based on the exercise data to the playing apparatus for selectively playing one of the pluralities of music with the specific tempo for the patient to exercise following the specific tempo.
Please referring to
For example, if the patient his maximum intensity is measured as 4.86 km/hr, and he walks 16 steps per shuttle (average). Then, 80% of the maximum intensity is 3.78 km/hr, and as shown in TABLE 1, it falls in Level 7.
The initial physical status data (such as the above measurement of the level and steps) of the patient can be further stored in the initial physical status database 11. The control unit 12 is connected with the exercise status database 13 and the initial physical status database 11 respectively. Furthermore, according to the physical status data in the initial physical status database 11, the control unit 12 can calculate for a proper tempo for the patient to exercise by following the proper tempo. The control unit 12 can first provide a basic music instruction. For example, the control unit 12 can calculate the required tempo for the patient according to the following formula 1.
wherein the level is looked up in TABLE 1, and the step is the number steps of the patient walked in one shuttle.
In the above example, the patient is in Level 7, and walking step is 16 steps per shuttle. According to the Formula 1, it can get the result of 100 beats per minute (tempo). Therefore, according the basic tempo, a plurality of music with different tempos, such as per minute 90 beats, 100 beats, 105 beats. . . etc, can be stored in the playing apparatus 14. In order to have simplified calculation, the music with different tempos stored in the playing apparatus 14 can be differenced with same beats (such as 5 beats); however, it is not used to limit the present invention, which may have variety differentials for tempos.
For example, the control unit 12 provides the basic music instruction of 100 beats to the playing apparatus 14. In another word, for the first time that the patient uses the playing apparatus 14 is to play the music with a basic tempo (such as 100 beats) based on the basic music instruction. The patient exercises following the tempo (such as 100 beats) of the music until he/she cannot follow the tempo (or cannot breath smoothly).
The exercise status data may further comprise time data, heart rate data, the dyspnea rating data, or the like.
When the patient starts to play the playing apparatus 14, the playing apparatus 14 sends initial signal to the control unit 12. And when the patient turns off the playing apparatus 14, the playing apparatus 14 sends end signal to the control unit 12. According to the initial signal and the end signal, the control unit 12 can calculate an exercise time (or duration) of the patient.
The heart rate of the patient can be inputted into the playing apparatus 14. The heart rate monitor 15 may connect to the playing apparatus 14 electronically; however, it is not used to limit the present invention. The data of the heart rate can be inputted by manual, instead. Furthermore, the patient can input his/her dyspnea rating data (will be described more detail in the following) into the playing apparatus 14. Similarly, the playing apparatus 14 can send the exercise status data (i.e. the inputted data) to the control unit 12.
The control unit 12 can further control all the exercise status data to be stored into the exercise status database 13, which can be a medical history of the patient for doctor's reference.
The playing apparatus 14 may be a cell-phone, a MP3 player, a Walkman, or the like that having a receiver thereon. The control unit 12 can use communication technology such as GSM, GPRS, or the like to transmit one or more instructions to the playing apparatus 14. Alternatively, as shown in
The initial physical status database 11, the control unit 12, and the exercise status database 13 can be integrated on an Internet platform 10. Thus, if it is using a GPRS cell-phone as the playing apparatus 14, all data in the GPRS cell-phone can be sent to the Internet platform 10 via wireless communication. Alternatively, if it is using the user wireless transceiver 141 as the playing apparatus 14, all data in the user wireless transceiver 141 can be sent to the Internet platform 10 through the system transceiver 142 or the PC via WLAN.
In addition, there are some other factors that may influence the exercise. The dyspnea rating of the patient can be divided 1-10 degree according to the BORG SCALE. The patient can input his/her exercise status data by filling one or more surveys displayed on a screen 140 of the playing apparatus 14. The surveys, as shown in
If the patient keeps endurance exercise at anywhere he/she wanted regularly, his/her intensity of exercise can be increased. When the patient has better intensity of exercise, the tempo should be a little bit quicker accordingly. According to the exercise status data (including such as the heart rate, dyspnea rating, and/or the exercise time (or duration)) stored in exercise status database 13, the control unit 12 can calculate for a proper intensity of exercise for the patient. The control unit 12, therefore, provides a proper music instruction to the playing apparatus 14 for playing with a proper tempo. Then, the patient can exercise following the proper tempo when playing the playing apparatus 14. In other words, the proper music with the proper tempo can be automatically selected from the playing apparatus 14. The patient needs only to turn on the playing apparatus 14. The proper tempo, for example, can be same, such as 5 beats more, or 5 beats less than the one earlier day. That means the basic tempo music may be same as the proper tempo music. The tempo for the patient to exercise is accordance with the exercise status data. According to the doctor's diagnosing, so the basic tempo, the increment or decrement of the differential tempo (such as 5 beats more or less), or the formula of the tempo should be set by the doctor.
In addition, a method for home-based exercise training guided by automatically assessment and selecting music is provided in accordance with the present invention. The method of automatically selecting music is adopted to selectively provide proper tempo music to a patient without any supervision, wherein the proper tempo music is used for the patient to exercise according to the tempo of the proper tempo music. Please refer to
Step S31: receiving at least one initial physical data of the patient. The initial physical data of the patient has described as above of testing in the hospital, for example.
Step S32: generating a basic tempo music according to the at least one initial physical data. As described in above, the basic tempo can be set in accordance with the FORMULA 1 for the patient to exercise following the tempo of the basic tempo music.
Step S33: providing a plurality of music with different tempo according to the basic tempo music. Between any two-tempo music, it can have the same or not the same beat differentials.
Step S34: receiving at least one exercise data of the patient including an exercise time (or duration) of the patient exercising following the basic tempo. As described above, when the patient follows the tempo to walk, the exercise data can be obtained. Receiving the exercise data comprises heart rate S341, time (or duration) of the exercise S342, dyspnea rating S343, and oxyhemoglobin in blood S344.
Step S351: automatically selecting one of the plurality of different tempo music according to the at least one exercise data for the patient to exercise following the selected tempo music. As described above, the proper tempo music will be selected automatically from the playing apparatus 14 (as shown in
Preferably, the method of this invention may further comprise the step of storing the at least one exercise data (S352). The exercise data can be used as historical status of the patient for doctors'reference.
According to the above system and method, an experiment has been obtained as following TABLE 2 and TABLE 3 and description, wherein the experiment group (14 persons) used the present invention and the control group (20 persons) did not.
From the comparison of TABLE 2 and TABLE 3, it is obvious that exercise tolerance improved after 12-week home-based endurance exercise training according to the present invention.
According to the method and the system of the present invention, the patient can operate (play) the playing apparatus 14 (as shown in
Those skilled in the art will readily observe that numerous modifications and alterations of the device and method may be made while retaining the teachings of the invention. Accordingly, the above disclosure should be construed as limited only by the metes and bounds of the appended claims.
| Number | Date | Country | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| 095139404 | Oct 2006 | TW | national |
